The reason to promote peace even in the face of threatining obsticles is important to a democracy as it align interests of the peoples want for peace with the politicians interest for re-election, popularity, success and credibility.

If a powe ful person does not promote peace and does not make it thier promary platform with domestic and international policty the politician is put in a precarious position. Not to say any other platform chosen was not created with the intent to do thier best to preserve the way of life of thier populous, but all other platforms disalign interets over time if and when more obsticles present themselves.

If a persons platform finds itself on the side of promoting a form of proactive defense or wadging war then that person is put in a position in which thier creidbility is at stake if it is ever proven that peace could have been a better option. The need to prove that peace was not an option or is not a clear path  can easily become a new objective and from one comprimise to another a person can invariably end up finding themselves trying  to prove that there is a need for force which may take either require more force or the framing of negative events to gain puplic cohesion. One decision is made after another and then the allowance of desctive act to prove the need for defese may be the only way to show the validity of ones position.

one thing leads to another and now in order to protct someone you need them to get hurt to allow you to protect them,…seems crazy  well look at glenn beck or rush limbagh who have already openly asked ofr destruction or failure to prive they are right. It is an example of misalignment..

Now if eeryone pushed diplomacy and peice the only way they go wrong is if something goes wrong, so in no way would they wantthat.to gain political postivity they must kee things safe. Safteyy and diplomacy align interst between community and leaders. it alwasy ends u p this way, is MLK or JFK remembered for violence who has been hitler, stalin, mcarthy. DOnt let hstory repreat itself and learn from past postivity, and diplomacy in teh face of negativity and violence has always been the corner stone of every philosphy, and histories ideal them all.  nothing wirth while is easy.